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Same with me. I don't mind the odd ballad, or two, on an album. But more than that and I'm just bored. And I don't think every slow song from Keith is a masterpiece.

What's boring is your moaning about Keith's ballads.
Keith's tracks aren't just ballads, they are a journey through blue's, country and soul, ok you don't get it. So what.

Agreed 100% Keefriffhards and they are my favorite journey's !

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Keith saying periodically for years in interviews that he was working on a Stones album. This goes back years to when Keith said he's got 3 killer riffs. Those riffs are not on HD.

Driving Me Too Hard might be one of these "killer riffs", it comes from the late 2015 sessions.

In the song Driving Me Too Hard we found this in some of the previous sessions but it wasn't finished. And so we kind of revived the riff and idea and then Keith and I finished it in the studio late in the day. So that was good fun doing it.

- Mick Jagger, September 2023


Keith forgot he came up with this until we went, Keith, this is really nice. We didn’t have a good take with Charlie on it so I suggested we redo the song at Henson in LA. It has a traditional Stones feel. People like that.

- Mick Jagger, c. August 2023

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Keith saying periodically for years in interviews that he was working on a Stones album. This goes back years to when Keith said he's got 3 killer riffs. Those riffs are not on HD.

Driving Me Too Hard might be one of these "killer riffs", it comes from the late 2015 sessions.

In the song Driving Me Too Hard we found this in some of the previous sessions but it wasn't finished. And so we kind of revived the riff and idea and then Keith and I finished it in the studio late in the day. So that was good fun doing it.

- Mick Jagger, September 2023


Keith forgot he came up with this until we went, Keith, this is really nice. We didn’t have a good take with Charlie on it so I suggested we redo the song at Henson in LA. It has a traditional Stones feel. People like that.

- Mick Jagger, c. August 2023

No mate, those aren't killer Riffs, the album doesn't consist of a single killer riff . Comprenda

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Agreed 100% Keefriffhards and they are my favorite journey's !

Absolutely, cheers to you too friend .

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Keith saying periodically for years in interviews that he was working on a Stones album. This goes back years to when Keith said he's got 3 killer riffs. Those riffs are not on HD.

Driving Me Too Hard might be one of these "killer riffs", it comes from the late 2015 sessions.

In the song Driving Me Too Hard we found this in some of the previous sessions but it wasn't finished. And so we kind of revived the riff and idea and then Keith and I finished it in the studio late in the day. So that was good fun doing it.

- Mick Jagger, September 2023


Keith forgot he came up with this until we went, Keith, this is really nice. We didn’t have a good take with Charlie on it so I suggested we redo the song at Henson in LA. It has a traditional Stones feel. People like that.

- Mick Jagger, c. August 2023

No mate, those aren't killer Riffs, the album doesn't consist of a single killer riff . Comprenda

It looks like this talk and fantasy of "three killer riffs" seems to live IORRian life of its own. If I recall right the actual interview from it supposedly derives from is this one from 2016, from the promotion of BLUE & LONESOME:

I've got three songs and they‘re dynamite. I don‘t want to make any decisions about this until this record comes out, because I think it might radically change Mick‘s attitude; it might change mine. I want to see the fallout from this record before I decide whether I want to record 40 of Mick‘s songs or whether he wants to sit down with me and record some songs together. That‘s my thing. That‘s my ball there. I‘ve always got a few songs on the back burner and so does Mick - he writes a lot. I don‘t. I tend to concentrate on two or three really interesting riffs or ideas, rather than being prolific... We did (record new songs) but they're still being worked on. (Blue & Lonesome won't be the last album). There will be more. (timeisonourside.com)

He could very well talk there about "Driving Me Too Hard" - as an example of those still work-in-progress tunes at the time (the only cut from those supposedly three Keith songs and 40 by Mick that finally made the album!). If a listener do not see it as a "dynamite song" or having the mythical "killer riff" that doesn't mean that Keith wouldn't.

- Doxa



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For me personally Driving Me Too Hard is the best track on HD, interestingly not played live or even rehearsed, a Keith written track probably left over from Crosseyed Heart. As much as i love the song it's not what you imagine a Killer Riff from Keith to be.

There is no killer riffs on Hackney Diamonds,but maybee on next years album.

Driving Me Too Hard is not a killer lick, as coconut treed around here, but rather a classic Keithism, some fantastic riffage with some licks in it, which could fall under "two or three really interesting riffs or ideas".

Where the three killer licks thing comes from is a mystery to me because as far as I recall that was never stated.

Yet there are some here that continue to push and say 'there's no killer licks on HD' blah blah blah.

Angry's got it going on. Get Close, Depending, Driving. Maybe even Mess It Up.

Define "killer lick". Keith occasionally comes up with a "killer lick" but it seems the culture of what defines that is lost in translation, or simply, the understanding of what an actual killer lick is.

The Riffmaster... not the Lickmaster.

Tell Me Straight is... killer, but what is it? A lick? It's not a riff.

Do you equate Brown Sugar with Keith's riffage? Because he didn't write it. He played it, made it better, Keithed it, but he didn't come up with it.

Is that the kind of stance some of you coconut treed people are taking? That's a long road of isolation if that's the case.

KEITH RICHARDS - DON'T BUST THE CRUST - KEITH'S BEST OF THE ROLLING STONES
1. Happy
2. Before They Make Me Run
3. Little T&A
4. You Don't Have To Mean It
5. All About You
6. Coming Down Again
7. You Got The Silver
8. The Worst
9. This Place Is Empty
10. Sleep Tonight
11. Losing My Touch
12. Thru And Thru
13. Tell Me Straight
14. Thief In The Night
15. How Can I Stop

Somehwere along the line Keith morphed into Dean Martin......but in good way

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Somehwere along the line Keith morphed into Dean Martin......but in good way

I'm glad you added "but in a good way"